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- IM attacks: 45% on MSN Messenger, 20% on Yahoo! IM, 19% on AIM
- faceTime says 19% of threats were reported on the AOL Instant Messenger network, 45% on MSN Messenger, 20% on Yahoo! Instant Messenger and 15% on all other IM networks including Jabber-based IM private networks. Attacks on these private networks have more than doubled in share since 2003, rising from seven%...
- Tags: MSN, AOL Instant Messenger, Network, MSN Messenger, IM, Yahoo! Inc., Attack, faceTime, Instant Messaging, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Security, Internet, Online Communications, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
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- Is Facebook banking that you're a beacon of egomania?
- Is Facebook banking that you're a beacon of egomania?can you fit...any more similes or metaphors into a column about facebook advertising? I mean they were packed in there like my sister's shoes in my suitcase when she ran out of room in both of hers on our last family vacation!...
- Tags: whole-Web 2.0 thing, Facebook banking, Facebook, beacon, banking
- Discussion threads 2007-11-26
- Security Solution ISV Helps Companies Maximize the Value of Unified Communications
- Microsoft Gold Certified Partner FaceTime Communications provides security, management, and compliance software for real-time communications through its product IMAuditor IMA. To ensure that IMA provides the best possible security support for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 - beyond the standard protection built into the product - FaceTime joined the Microsoft...
- Tags: Security, Compliance, Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., FaceTime Communications, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft Office Communications Server, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner FaceTime Communications
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Dealing with Facebook time
- While on vacation the last two weeks in the Northwest, I've spent my time picking raspberries, chopping wood, herding ducks, whacking weeds and golf balls and lounging at the river.I come back to the usual massive amount of non-essential email, which I weed out with block deletes, and, interestingly, a...
- Tags: Web Technology, General, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- YouTube hosts a video debate with questions by - you
- This presidential campaign will be the most democratic ever, if CNN and YouTube's plans for a new debate forum work out. Wired reports the candidates will be able to participate in a new kind of debate, one where voters will send in video questions for candidates to answer in televised...
- Tags: Elections
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Why I doubt Skype for Enterprise's short-term chances for large-scale success
- Why I doubt Skype for Enterprise's short-term chances for large-scale successSkype Forming Partnerships With Leading Enterprise SecuritySkype is partnering with leading greynet security firms like Facetime to address some of these concerns. http://share.skype.com/sites/business/2007/03/skype_partners_with_facetime_t.html I think Skype will follow the pattern of other popular greynets. Regards,Kameran Ahari
- Tags: Business structures, SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- AOL IM worm on the loose
- AOL IM worm on the looseFor an Editor In Cheif, i've got to wonder if you even work in computingKevin MatthewsEditor in ChiefArchitectureWeekhmmm, then you would probably notice that this article isn't half as biased as you'd like to think.If there was a malicious webpage that was exploiting firefox, would...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Instant messaging, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, America Online Inc., worm, AOL Instant Messenger, IM
- Discussion threads 2006-09-19
- IM browser hijack with music
- From FaceTime's Greynets Blog -- I'm not kidding -- spread through instant messaging, a browser hijacker that plays music and it's named Safety Browser. Oh, the irony. This Safety Browser affects Yahoo Messenger and is installed by a worm dubbed yhoo32.explr, according to the FaceTime press release. This worm installs...
- Tags: Web browser, music
- Blog posts 2006-05-22
- Botnet drama: database theft, IM attacks, financial fraud
- Are you a victim? If not, the guy next door might be. According to the story, two botnets claimed over 150,000 compromised machines, some with RATS remote administration tools installed and one machine being used "as a vehicle to fraudulently scan desktop and back-end systems to obtain credit card...
- Tags: BotNet
- Blog posts 2006-03-15
- 180solutions' S3 technology broken?
- According to Ben Edelman, the answer is yes. Ben has blogged about another nonconsensual installation of 180's Zango software at an unnamed website. There's a video, too. The install goes something like this - Ben is surfing around and clicks on an ad that redirects him to...
- Tags: Zango, Ben, 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2006-02-20
- 180solutions responds to CDT complaint - I think?
- Just a few days ago, the Center for Democracy & Technology CDT filed a lengthy, detailed complaint with the Federal Trade Commission FTC about 180's sordid 2 year history of documented installs without notice or consent via exploits, alleged deceptive and unfair business practices, and so on, in 91 pages....
- Tags: 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2006-01-27
- Reactions to CDT's action against 180solutions and CJB.net
- There were a number of interesting articles and comments around the web about the CDT's complaint filed yesterday against adware company 180solutions and CJB.net. News.com's Joris Evers has a good outline and 180solutions representative Sean Sundwall's reaction. Company spokesman Sean Sundwall said that 180solutions has not yet reviewed the...
- Tags: Center for Democracy and Technology, 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2006-01-24
- Anti-Spyware Coalition news
- The Anti-Spyware Coalition has announced the final agenda for the public workshop to be held on February 9, 2006 in Washington, DC. I’m really excited about this workshop, especially since I’m on a panel. The speakers include important folks like Deborah Majoras Platt, the Chairman of the FTC, Susannah...
- Tags: spyware, anti-spyware
- Blog posts 2006-01-19
- AIM users targeted again by IM worm, rootkit and adware
- AIM users targeted again by IM worm, rootkit and adwareThat wasn't long was it?I said had said over at SunbeltBlog that I didn't expect it would take to the end of Jan for some 180Collusions 'affiliate' install to popup, and it wasn't even a week!!I'm sure they are gonna spend...
- Tags: Business structures, Tools & Techniques, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, partnership, AOL Instant Messenger, software, worm, adware, IM, rootkit
- Discussion threads 2006-01-06
- AIM users targeted again by IM worm, rootkit and adware
- Hot off the press -- another IM worm is making the rounds, targeting AIM users and leaving a nasty payload of rootkits, trojans and adware including 180solutions and Zango. Research experts at FaceTime Security LabsTM, the threat research division of FaceTime Communications, identified and reported a new threat today affecting...
- Tags: rootkit, IM, AOL Instant Messenger
- Blog posts 2006-01-06
- A Web 2.0-ish approach to advancing SOA
- Writing in IEEE Internet Computing, IONA's Steve Vinoski weighs in on the results of a poll I reported on a couple of months back, expressing skepticism about results showing SOA failure rates. Nonetheless, Vinoski is concerned about what it will take to deliver what can be considered a successful SOA,...
- Tags: SOA, Steve Vinoski
- Blog posts 2006-01-06
- Rootkits part II: what does a rootkit look like?
- The Sony DRM rootkit drama lives on and a new question is being asked. "Why didn't security vendors catch the problem sooner?" An interesting question, indeed. According to the PCWorld article, F-Secure, security vendor in Finland, was aware of the problem before Mark Russinovich blogged his findings. There were...
- Tags: rootkit
- Blog posts 2005-12-05
- Rootkits galore: part I
- If anything good has come from the Sony DRM rootkit debacle, it's an increased awareness of the peril of rootkits. How many people knew what a rootkit was? Or heard of a rootkit? Outside of security circles, not many. If you're still not sure what a rootkit is,...
- Tags: rootkit
- Blog posts 2005-11-18
- Trick or treat: AIM worm delivers backdoor, rootkit and adware
- Imagine you're chatting with friends in an AOL IM chat room one minute, you click on a seemingly innocent link, and the next minute your computer is taken over by a worm delivering an extraordinarily nasty payload. That's precisely what happened just a few days ago. CNET news...
- Tags: adware, 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2005-10-31
- ShopAtHomeSelect strikes again
- ShopAtHomeSelect made the news last week for getting kicked out of affiliate network Commission Junction. See my previous post for the details. Now there's more news about SAHS and their unsavory practices. Wayne Porter of FaceTime blogs about it. Wayne refers to a write up by Chris Boyd (aka...
- Tags: ShopAtHomeSelect, adware
- Blog posts 2005-10-26
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